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is a class of barbarians whose way of existence is the idiocy of rural life.

for Marx, peasants are a 'class of barbarians,' whose way of existence he labels the 'idiocy of rural life.'

is a cultivator subject to the demands and sanctions of powerholders outside their social stratum.

rural cultivators whose surpluses are transferred to a dominant group of rulers that uses the surplus both to underwrite its own standard of living and to distribute the remainder to [non-agricultural] groups . . . ' Later he emphasizes that 'it is only . . . when the cultivator becomes subject to the demands and sanctions of powerholders outside his social stratum that we can appropriately speak of peasantry.'

is a group which helps to dismantle the sharp distinction between city and country.

argues that the sharp distinction between city and country is being dismantled as anthropologist re-conceptualize the peasantry'

is a man who is in effective control of a piece of land to which he has long been attached.

a man who is in effective control of a piece of land to which he has long been attached by ties of tradition and sentiment' (Peasant Society and Culture 1961: 19)

is in an intermediate position along the folk-urban continuum. A lower social class classified part of a stratified, partly already semi-industrialized society., already dependent to produce for the market in contrast to the self-sufficient subsistence farmers.

For Redfield peasants are farmers who live in a traditional community, but is already part of a more complex state structure. Peasant societies are thus a lower social class classified part of a stratified, partly already semi-industrialized society. Although they feel their country strongly connected and produce the greater part for their own use... However, they are already dependent to produce for the market in contrast to the self-sufficient subsistence farmers. Redfield did with his concept of peasant culture offer an alternative to the usual binary distinction between ' primitive' and 'modern'. He distinguished between an isolated primitive community, socially and culturally has no contacts outwards, whereas peasant communities are in contact with the outside world. However, you are not yet a part of the more 'advanced ' centralized civilization, but are on the edge and thus take an intermediate position between primitive and urban Communities, so they occupy an intermediate position in the folk -urbancontinuum.'

is the most preferable company because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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